We're Back... with "Pale Blue Eyes"

I am descending from the depths of academics to revive the Touch My Clickwheel blog. TMC will be back for a few more weeks of sweet online radio tunes, and I will be posting shows from past semesters online for your listening pleasure so stay tuned for updates.

In the mean time, here's "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground. "Pale Blue Eyes" is a Kate pick, which is only appropriate since she's the only blue-eyed member of TMC. It's a sleepy morning song and, for that reason, I am in love with it. I am also a sucker for simplicity in adjectives, and "Pale Blue Eyes" includes many. Mad, sad, angry, and happy. It takes nothing more to win me over.

Deleted Scenes on the Red Line

I was not aware of the Deleted Scenes until only just now, but they have combined two of my very favorite things: music and public transportation! I am quite won over.

Better yet, this performance is of endearingly folky guitar music, and in Washington, DC's very own Metro system. Makes the extra $0.35 seem worth not riding the Circulator, where spontaneous music is hardly ever performed. There is an especially nice moment when a man wearing Apple earbuds walks by just as the lyrics knock their lack of bass.

Check out DC's (admittedly more lo-fi) answer to the Black Cab sessions below:



Listen to more Deleted Scenes on MySpace.

And just because the subway might be a good way for a good man to go down:
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters by Elton John
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